All Features articles – Page 223
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Block trading: horses for courses
One component of transition management that has grown in importance is block trading. As its name implies, this involves the trading of large blocks of shares between institutions. Historically, the problem with block trading is that there is no wholesale market for shares. Large institutional investors trade in the same ...
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The Euro-zone bond success
It is now over six and a half years since the introduction of the euro, and in a recent article, PIMCO’s Emanuele Ravano suggests that the Euro-zone’s bond market should be viewed as perhaps the politicians’ biggest success story. Many of the statistics speak for themselves: The euro government bond ...
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Breaking the mould
While Austrian-born California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been grappling with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), in the land of his birth the Austrian government was having considerably more success trying to bring its own public service pensions arrangements into line with those of the rest of society. “It ...
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Plus ça change
The euro’s birth was a monumental event in monetary world history. On 1 January 1999 the euro replaced 10 national currencies that had been used for decades, or centuries, to make domestic and international transactions. The euro also eliminated the ability of central banks in the participating countries to use ...
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When captives set you free
Across Europe, companies have been struggling to contain or reduce costs. As the expense of employee benefits has skyrocketed over the last few years it is not surprising that companies have been taking a long, hard look at how to limit and reduce costs, manage risks and how best to ...
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The power of the 'case method'
If you felt some tremors on 25 October, the cause may have been the animated debate at the University of Toronto’s Rotman school of management about the right financial policies for the Public Sector Employee Retirement System (PERS). The participants in the debate were the 55 attendees to a colloquium ...
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Virtual debate on challenges
November saw the first-ever IPe-Symposium, an online conference for the European pension industry. The topic for the free event was “The challenges in meeting Europe’s occupational pensions liabilities”. Some of the most senior figures in the field participated and some 668 delegates, from 46 countries, registered to participate - with ...
